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Modern scholarship tends to focus on the social, political and economic information that can be gleaned from Pindar's treatment of the subject of his victory odes - the athlete who brings immortality to his family and polis. In this book, Asya C. Sigelman offers a new approach to the odes, exploring the fact that Pindar's language and imagery suggest that the athlete's victory is only a weaker version of the poet's immortalizing feat. Examining several central Pindaric images, Sigelman shows that they are fundamentally reflexive, structured as expressions of poetic creativity engaged in a perpetual synthesis of intra-poetic time - of the unity of the past, present and future of the world of Pindar's song. As the book's case studies of several of the odes demonstrate, this synthesis is key to Pindar's notion of immortalization and constitutes the central poetic subject of Pindar's song which underlies and informs its praise of the victorious athlete.

Immortality in literature. --- Style, Literary. --- Ode. --- Unsterblichkeit. --- Zeit. --- Pindar --- Pindar. --- Pindarus, --- Pindare. --- Literary style. --- Immortality in literature --- Literary style --- Pindar - Literary style --- Pindarus --- Pindare --- Pindaro --- Πίνδαρος --- Pindaros

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In Roaming into the Beyond Zornica Kirkova provides the first detailed study in a Western language of Daoism-inspired themes in early medieval Chinese poetry. She examines representations of Daoist xian immortality in a broad range of versified literature from the Han until the end of the Six Dynasties, focusing on the transformations of themes, concepts, and imagery within a wide literary and religious context. Adopting a more integrated approach, the author explores both the complex interaction between poetry and Daoist religion and the interrelations between various verse forms and poetic themes. This book not only enhances our understanding of the complexities of early medieval literature but also reevaluates the place of Daoist religious thought in the intellectual life of the period.

Chinese poetry --- Immortality in literature. --- Taoism in literature. --- S16/0200 --- Chinese literature --- History and criticism. --- China: Literature and theatrical art--Traditional poetry and poets: studies --- Immortality in literature --- Taoism in literature --- History and criticism

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The idea of earthly immortality has a tradition in literature dating to the Gilgamesh epic. But what would it mean to attain such immortality? Answers are suggested in novels and plays that explore the theme using varieties of Borges's "rational imagination," often in connection with projections of biology or cybernetics. In this groundbreaking study, Karl S. Guthke examines key works in this vein, throwing into relief fascinating instances of human self-awareness across the last 300 years. Authors discussed in detail include J. M. Barrie, Calvino, Shaw, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Swift, Aldous Huxley, Walter Besant, Arthur C. Clarke, Wilde, Borges, William Godwin and other English Romantics, Capek, Machado de Assis, de Beauvoir, Martin Amis, Dino Buzzati, Houellebecq, Iris Barry, Saramago, Rushdie, Gabi Gleichmann, and Pascal Mercier. Guthke finds that the fictional triumph over death is only rarely viewed positively, and mostly as a "curse"-for a variety of reasons. Almost always, however, literary experiments with immortality suggest an alternative: the chance to take our limited lifetime into our own hands, shaping it meaningfully and thereby experiencing "a new way of being in the world" (Mercier). The fictional immortals reject this challenge, thus depriving themselves of what makes humans human and life worth living. And what that might be is also at least hinted at in the works Guthke analyzes. As a result, an aspect of cultural history comes into view that is revealing and stimulating at a time that is, as Der Spiegel put it in 2014, "obsessed by the invention of immortality." Karl S. Guthke is the Kuno Francke Professor of Germanic Art and Culture, Emeritus, of Harvard University.

Immortality in literature. --- analysis. --- death. --- fiction. --- genre. --- history. --- humanities. --- humanity. --- immortality. --- literary study. --- literature. --- motif. --- research. --- theme.

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Greek literature --- Women and literature --- Immortality in literature. --- Women --- Sex role in literature. --- Heroines in literature. --- Mythology, Greek. --- Cults --- Littérature grecque --- Femmes et littérature --- Immortalité dans la littérature --- Femmes --- Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature --- Héroines dans la littérature --- Mythologie grecque --- Cultes --- History and criticism. --- Mythology --- Histoire et critique --- Mythologie --- Greece --- Grèce --- Religion. --- Religion --- Heroines in literature --- Immortality in literature --- Mythology, Greek --- Sex role in literature --- Greek mythology --- Heroines --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- History and criticism

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Krementsov examines a particular fascination with the dream of immortality and the place of science and fiction in its pursuit in Russia during roughly a decade that followed the country's political revolutions of 1917. It argues that contemporary scientific experiments aimed at the control over life, death, and disease inspired many Russian writers to conduct their own literary experiments with the ideas and techniques offered by experimental biology and medicine, which found expression in both popular-science writings and a new literary genre, science fiction.

Literature and science --- Biology --- Immortality in literature. --- Biology in literature. --- Science fiction, Russian --- Russian science fiction --- Russian fiction --- Life sciences --- Biomass --- Life (Biology) --- Natural history --- Poetry and science --- Science and literature --- Science and poetry --- Science and the humanities --- Experiments. --- History and criticism.